Book SHORT STORIES of Ernest HEMINGWAY The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway; subtitle: the First Forty-Nine Stories and the Play "the Fifth Column". Publisher: Random House, New York, 1938; hardcover. No dust jacket. This is The Modern Library issue with green cloth cover boards. Introduction by Hemingway; 597 pages. Cover corners are bumped; there is a stain on the spine; endpapers have foxing. This item can ship Media Mail for $3.85 in the U.S. - if desired, please request it in the 'Comments' section of the order form.
Circa: 1938
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Random House
Author: Ernest Hemingway  

Book BOY SCOUTS On The TRAIL 1921 Book, Boy Scouts On The Trail, Saalfield. This hardcover edition of ''Boy Scouts On The Trail'' shows no other dates or editions but 1921, so is most likely a First Edition. Two scouts save the day as WWI messengers ~ frontis shows two Scouts sending message with flag; has a green cloth pictorial cover with black letters. No dust jacket; front board beginning to separate but still intact, corners bumped, spine has tear at bottom, page edges are foxed. No page numbers; book is a little over 1'' thick. Author:...
Circa: 1921
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Saalfield Publishing Co.  

WINTER of Our DISCONTENT John STEINBECK The Winter of Our Discontent, by John Steinbeck. Published by The Viking Press, Inc., ©1961. Pages: 281. Condition: small hole in spine at bottom (see photo), cover boards have slight staining, spine is tight, pages are very clean, no dust jacket. This item can ship Media Mail for $3.55 - please mention it in the 'Comments' section of the order form, if desired.
Circa: 1961
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Viking Press, Inc.
Author: John Steinbeck  

Book HOTEL Arthur Hailey BOOK CLUB Edition Hotel, by Arthur Hailey. Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., ©1965. Hardcover, Book Club Edition. Jacket Painting By Margaret Fleming. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Turquoise green cloth boards. A stirring, exciting story set against the background of a great hotel in the lusty, tumultuous city of New Orleans; time: 1964. Many memorable characters people the richly woven texture of ''Hotel''. This is a fascinating glimpse into the inner machinery and secrets of a great hotel, laid open to the reader by a master...
Circa: 1965
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Doubleday  

Book BOYS From BRAZIL Ira Levin First BOOK CLUB Edition The Boys From Brazil, by Ira Levin. First Book Club Edition, ©1976; Random House, New York. A Nazi hunter uncovers a National Socialist plot in South America to clone copies of Adolf Hitler so the armies of darkness can again march over the Earth. Hardcover; 280 pages. Cover has three frayed edges; pages very clean; dust jacket has tears at spine and end flap edges. This item can ship Media Mail for $3.65 in the U.S. - if desired, please request it in the 'Comments' section of the order form.
Circa: 1976
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Random House
Author: Ira Levin
ISBN: 0394402677  

Book RED DRAGON Thomas Harris BOOK CLUB Edition This is the author's second book, and the first appearance of Hannibal Lecter. Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York; Book Club Edition. Frontispiece by Blake. Hardcover; ©1981; 341 pages. Size: 8½ x 5 7/8". Cover boards very clean; spine is tight; owner's name in ink on first end paper. Dust jacket has some short tears and fading. This item can ship Media Mail for $3.25 in the U.S. - if desired, please request it in the 'Comments' section of the order form.
Circa: 1981
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Author: Thomas Harris
ISBN: 039912442X  

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME Victor HUGO Book, Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo. World's Literary Masterpieces by Lowell Press, NY. No date; circa 1940. The reader is transported to medieval Paris, richly described in breath-taking detail. The hunchback, Quasimodo, who like the reader himself, observes the beautiful city-world from the outside, secluded in the great bell tower of Notre Dame. Dom Claude is the jealous priest, whose heart is filled with a mixture of passionate love and loathing disgust, and Esmerelda is the beautiful gypsy girl, who lives in a harsh world...
Circa: 1940
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Lowell Press
Author: Victor Hugo  

Book EAST of EDEN The Wayward Bus STEINBECK East of Eden and The Wayward Bus, by John Steinbeck. Publisher: Viking Press, New York; ©1952. Hardcover; no dust jacket. Two of Steinbeck's finest novels are offered together in this special volume. In ''East of Eden'' the biblical account of Cain and Abel is echoed in the history of two generations of the Trask family in California. In ''The Wayward Bus'' the ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the...
Circa: 1952
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Viking Press
Author: John Steinbeck  

Book THE SOCIAL GANGSTER C. Kennedy 1916 Book, The Social Gangster: Adventures of Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective. By Arthur B. Reeve; first edition. Publisher: Hearst's International Library Co., New York; ©1916. Hardcover; no dust jacket; 342 pages. Slight spotting to outside red cloth boards; copy in good condition with spine partially loose. Front illustration page has a lengthwise crease, owner's name in ink on front flyleaf, there is minor foxing. This item can ship Media Mail for $2.95 in the U.S. - if desired, please request it in the 'Comments'...
Circa: 1916
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Hearst's International Library Co.
Author: Arthur B. Reeve  

Book ANNA And The KING Of SIAM Landon Anna and the King of Siam, by Margaret Landon. Publisher: The John Day Company, New York, ©1944, wartime copy. Illustrated by Margaret Ayer. Hardcover, no dust jacket. The author weaves, in glittering tapestry, a tale of comedy and tragedy, intrigue and mysticism, cruelty and gentle wisdom. Mixing mostly fact with fiction, she evokes with stunning detail a time (1860’s) when foreign lands were still foreign and traditions still ruled daily life. Based on authentic Siamese records, private letters, and the writings of Anna Leonowens...
Circa: 1944
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: The John Day Company
Author: Margaret Landon  

Book PATRICIA BRENT, SPINSTER ©1918 By Herbert George Jenkins (1876-1923). Quite a popular novel at the time, this book was made into a movie in 1919. Chapters include: Patricia's Indiscretion, The Madness of Lord Peter Bowen, Patricia's Revenge, Lord Peter Promises a Solution, A Race with Spinsterhood, and more. A. L. Burt Company, Publishers, New York; 312 pages. Cover corners are bumped, spine is worn, owner's name on front endpaper. Pages are clean, spine is tight. This item can ship Media Mail for $2.85 in the U.S.
Circa: 1918
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Publisher: A. L. Burt Company  

Book CAPTAIN From CASTILE Shellabarger Book, Captain from Castile, Samuel Shellabarger. Printed in 1945, this hardcover novel has 503 pages, maps of Spain and Mexico at the time of Cortes, and an embossed sword on the cover. Some of the pages have minor foxing. Cover corners are bumped. Spine is slightly dingy, but is intact. Publisher: Blakiston Company, Philadelphia. Good condition. This item can ship Media Mail for $2.95 in the U.S. - if desired, please request it in the 'Comments' section of the order form.
Circa: 1945
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Blakiston Company
Author: Samuel Shellabarger  

Book FOCUS Arthur Miller BOOK CLUB Edition A unique find, ''Focus'', a novel by Arthur Miller, bound with a rare upside-down and backwards cover. This is Miller's second book and first novel, a suspense story on racism. ''A momentous work of truth and art'' wrote the Chicago Sun. ©1945, Book Find Club Edition. Good condition with spine partially loose, corners bumped, no dust jacket. This item can ship Media Mail for $2.95 in the U.S. - if desired, please request it in the 'Comments' section of the order form.
Circa: 1945
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock
Author: Arthur Miller  

YOUNG BESS by Irwin BIOGRAPHICAL Novel Eliz I Novel, Young Bess, by Margaret Irwin. A biographical novel about the early years of Queen Elizabeth I. Good author, good book! ©1945, Book Club Wartime Edition, with a plea to buy War Bonds on back of dust jacket. Book has minor spine wear at top & bottom, corners are bumped, owner's name on front flyleaf. Dust jacket has tears, and fading on the spine. This item can ship Media Mail for $2.95 in the U.S. - if desired, please request it in the 'Comments' section of the order form.
Circa: 1945
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Co
Author: Margaret Irwin  

Book FROM HERE To ETERNITY James Jones From Here To Eternity, by James Jones. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, ©1951. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Rich with memorable characters, this bestseller describes army life in Hawaii on the eve of Pearl Harbor. Condition: lightly soiled black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Two short cracks at bottom of spine. Binding is square, pages clean, except for front end paper which has foxing. Spine back just beginning to separate. No names or bookplates inside. Pages: 861. This item can ship Media Mail for $3.85 in...
Circa: 1951
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Author: James Jones  

Book RED DRAGON Thomas Harris ©1981 This is the author's second book, and the first appearance of Hannibal Lecter. Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Frontispiece by Blake. Hardcover; ©1981; 348 pages. Size: 6 3/8 x 9¼". Cover has frayed corners and a water stain; pages are soiled on edges; dust jacket has tears and tape residue on back. This item can ship Media Mail for $3.85 in the U.S. - if desired, please request it in the 'Comments' section of the order form.
Circa: 1981
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Author: Thomas Harris
ISBN: 039912442X  

Book THE EXORCIST William P. BLATTY The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty. Publisher: Harper and Row; New York, ©1971. Possible First Edition. Hardcover; no dust jacket. Cover has spine wear at top and bottom, minor corner bumping; a few pages have minor soiling. A spellbinding story expertly written! This item can ship Media Mail for $3.65 in the U.S. - if desired, please request it in the 'Comments' section of the order form.
Circa: 1971
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Harper and Row
Author: William Peter Blatty
ISBN: 0060103655  

Book The KING'S GENERAL Daphne Du Maurier Book, The King's General, by Daphne Du Maurier. Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, ©1946; first edition. ''Menabilly stands bare and desolate on the Cornish coast, its ivy-covered walls hiding the secret which two people will carry to their graves: Honor Harris, so injured as a girl that she never walked again, and Sir Richard Grenvile, the King's General in the West, resentful, proud, bitter to the end. The only man Honor ever loved. She saw him for the first time on the night of her eighteenth birthday at the Duke...
Circa: 1946
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Author: Daphne Du Maurier  

Book ELEPHANT WALK Robert Standish 1949 **SOLD** Elephant Walk by Robert Standish; published by The MacMillan Company in 1949, First American Edition. Hardcover; 278 pages. Condition: some cover stains, corners are very slightly bumped, pages are very clean, spine is tight, no dust jacket. This item can ship Media Mail for $3.55 - please mention it in the 'Comments' section of the order form, if desired.
Circa: 1949
Condition: Used
Type: Hardcover
Country of Origin: US
Publisher: MacMillan Company
Author: Robert Standish